X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/629823433cb0df2f2752769abc9900a5b3cae997..2f102a23f6c2e4e2a715ed6df6ea5acf68394be3:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index 628f671909..d0372ba6d1 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,29 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + The worlds only stone power plant? + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_worlds_only_stone_power_plant_.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_worlds_only_stone_power_plant_.html + Sat, 30 Jun 2018 10:35:00 +0200 + <p>So far, at least hydro-electric power, coal power, wind power, +solar power, and wood power are well known. Until a few days ago, I +had never heard of a stone power. Then I learn about a quarry in a +mountain in +<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremanger">Bremanger</a> i +Norway, where +<a href="https://www.bontrup.com/en/activities/raw-materials/bremanger-quarry/">the +Bremanger Quarry</a> company is extracting stone and dumping the stone +into a shaft leading to its shipping harbour. This downward movement +in this shaft is used to produce electricity. In short, it is using +falling rocks instead of falling water to produce electricity, and +according to its own statements it is producing more power than it is +using, and selling the surplus electricity to the Norwegian power +grid. I find the concept truly amazing. Is this the worlds only +stone power plant?</p> + + + Add-on to control the projector from within Kodi http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Add_on_to_control_the_projector_from_within_Kodi.html @@ -439,40 +462,6 @@ Windows 2000. Thus, an unpatched Debian setup come as no surprise.</p> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution International (CC BY 4.0)</a>.</p> -<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my -activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address -<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p> - - - - - The SysVinit upstream project just migrated to git - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_SysVinit_upstream_project_just_migrated_to_git.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_SysVinit_upstream_project_just_migrated_to_git.html - Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:20:00 +0100 - <p>Surprising as it might sound, there are still computers using the -traditional Sys V init system, and there probably will be until -systemd start working on Hurd and FreeBSD. -<a href="https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit">The upstream -project still exist</a>, though, and up until today, the upstream -source was available from Savannah via subversion. I am happy to -report that this just changed.</p> - -<p>The upstream source is now in Git, and consist of three -repositories:</p> - -<ul> - -<li><a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit.git">sysvinit</a></li> -<li><a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit/insserv.git">insserv</a></li> -<li><a href="http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/sysvinit/startpar.git">startpar</a></li> - -</ul> - -<p>I do not really spend much time on the project these days, and I -has mostly retired, but found it best to migrate the source to a good -version control system to help those willing to move it forward.</p> - <p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address <b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>